Approximation Of Free-Discontinuity Problems

Functionals involving both volume and surface energies have a number of applications ranging from computer vision to fracture mechanics. The purpose of this tex... » 

Functionals involving both volume and surface energies have a number of applications ranging from computer vision to fracture mechanics. The purpose of this text is to present a global approach to approximations using the theory of gamma-convergence and of special functions of bounded variation. «